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There are in India oxen also with solid hoofs [Note] and a single horn; [Note] and a wild beast called the axis, which has a skin
like that of a fawn, but with numerous spots on it, and whiter; [Note] this animal is looked upon as sacred to Bacchus. The Orsæan Indians hunt down a kind of ape, which has the body white [Note] all over; as well as a very fierce animal called the monoceros, [Note] which has the head of the stag, the feet of the elephant, and the tail of the boar, while the rest of the body is like that of the horse; it makes a deep lowing noise, and has a single black horn, which projects from the middle of its forehead, two cubits in length. [Note] This animal, it is said, cannot be taken alive.
| Pliny the Elder, Natural History (English) (XML Header) [genre: prose] [word count] [lemma count] [Plin. Nat.]. | ||
| <<Plin. Nat. 8.30 | Plin. Nat. 8.31 (Latin) | >>Plin. Nat. 8.32 |
